In order to be able to synchronise the time on a machine with an NTP server, ntpdate must be used. To get this application you need the "ntp" package which includes everything that has to do with ntp which is a bit overkill if NTP only synchronisation is needed. Why not make a separate package called "ntpdate" which only includes this application? This is something that is already done in Debian. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
there was a discussion about a 'server' use flag some time ago on -dev, not sure how it ended
cant/wont be done at this stage
This doesn't make sense. From the ntpdate man page: Disclaimer: The functionality of this program is now available in the ntpd program. See the -q command line option in the ntpd - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution
Just to summarise: I did check into this after reading Carlo's comment. The plan is to remove ntpdate from ntp because of various reasons. The functionality provided by ntpdate will be provided by "ntpd -q". See this page for further information: http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config.htm Maybe we should find a small ntp client app that does the job of correcting time on workstations?
forgot ntpdate was deprecated ...
thus no soup for you
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how come we can't include ntpd on the livecd? 300k. Too big? Lets include ntpdate and and forget about that it is depreciated. Without either, we are just sacrificing functionality.
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